“We must cultivate our garden.” - Voltaire
Consider life as a garden in which you till the soil, plant the seeds and tend the crops. Your harvest yield depends upon the energy you choose to invest in cultivating what you have sown. Beware the weeds that overtake your good intentions. Although some may bear beautiful flowers, they, too will sap your precious resources. Keep to the garden paths so as not to interfere with new growth, but be sure not to miss the blooms when they come to pass.
Andrea Belag has an upcoming show at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. At first the show was slated to be a group show but in the end wound up as a solo exhibition. This is Belag’s first show at Morgan Lehman.
Belag believes it is important for all artists to show their work and says that her career has been driven by her network. She maintains a studio that is large enough for her to do works that are five to six feet in size. Belag’s work, while large in scale, is produced using color and gesture and yet maintains a certain confidence.
Oliver Kalb is a songwriter and producer. He recently recorded a solo album called The Rose Gardener, but he also tours with a band. He has been writing songs for over a decade and often participates in month-long “song of the day” projects wherein he writes a song every day for a month. Kalb says this is a good way to trick his
creative juices into flowing. Kalb makes his living from his music, albeit modestly, through album sales and touring with the three or four bands that he is in.
